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White recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. Through research, he imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African American balls and the grubbiness of the Police Office.

African American actors --- African Americans --- African American theater --- Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Afro-American theater --- Theater, African American --- Theater --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Actors, African American --- Afro-American actors --- Negro actors --- Actors --- African American entertainers --- Intellectual life --- History --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- African Company (New York) --- History. --- New York (N.Y.) --- Race relations. --- Social change --- Sociology of minorities --- Theatrical science --- History of civilization --- anno 1800-1899 --- New York State --- Black people --- Enslaved persons --- New York [state] --- African Company (New York, N.Y.)